Nice, the cleaning was all accomplished in the two days so I am back into a normal week where I have four working days and then Sunday. Yesterday was primarily spent cleaning the main floor and the basement. The Robot worked perfectly and I will always double check now to make sure it is sitting properly on the home base. I could easily just vacuum the rugs but the robot does do a good job and it keeps me in the 21st century!
Prayers for the repose of His Holiness Pope Francis as he lies in State awaiting his funeral. There aren't too many people that the whole world stops and notes their passing; he has been a giant in this world where his constant care and devotion were felt in every corner of the world.
Today I shall work on the matches and I have nearly completed J so getting on towards half way through this set of matches. I still need to look at Living DNA and FT DNA. I will also check out Ancestry to make sure they are still up to date but likely more have collected. I also want to separate those matches out into the four grandparents. I will have to consider how to do that and likely I will stay with the main file and when I want to use it I will do the separation each time so as not to increase the workload on that file.
I also need to start thinking about setting aside a couple of half hour sessions outside raking. I will maintain what is there but I do not think I will replace any of the plants lost during the fence building. I will just keep the earth somewhat broken up and weeded. I want to fill the central garden with grass seed and will do that in the next week or so. I will weed it first to give the grass a chance.
The election is the most important item in our news these days. All of the parties that are going to produce a budget have now done so. I do not think any party should think of lowering taxes however they likely will. We will need the taxes along with financial support within Canada to do all the work that needs doing with the energy grid proposed by both of the main parties. In the long run it will be a profitable enterprise for us as we burn the oil to run our cars etc. Why pay someone else to refine our oil when we can do it ourselves and used to do that. The election will be an exciting day but I firmly believe that either party (Conservative or Liberal) are going to follow basically the same methodology to increase our external trade around the world and break down the trade barriers between the provinces to increase buying Canadian. We are/were the largest purchaser of American goods and we will still purchase large amounts it will just be more selective and if we have it here likely we buy that instead. We live in a country covered with snow six months or more of the year - fresh food has to come from somewhere although our green house business is increasing but still the bulk of our fresh food in the winter is going to come from the south (it is the cheapest source under normal circumstances).
But recreating our lost industry is a high priority and that will effect the American bottom line as they bought up our industries and now we will recreate them here once again and buy their produce. Who gained from all of this really (American companies going offshore to produce their products has hurt the United States and it will be hard to convince people to work at low paying repetitive work in factories)? In the long run it could well be us because our industry base will diversify once again to support an ever growing population. Canada is a huge country and this will encourage industry to grow larger to produce for the ever growing population. We have a great deal of land that can be utilized and our population is now over 41 million with thoughts of it being 100 million by 2050. It could happen as the north becomes more and more utilized industrially. We could be a bread basket for the world as well as a provider of water, oil, critical metals, lumber, steel and so much else. We have access to the three great waterways of the world as well. When high speed rail exists from coast to coast to coast then the travel time will be minimized making this ever more practical for trade around the world.
Go Canada.